Proceedings: Shrubland dynamics -- fire and water

Abstract

The 26 papers in these proceedings are divided into five sections. The first two sections are an introduction and a plenary session that introduce the principles and role the shrub life-form in the High Plains, including the changing dynamics of shrublands and grasslands during the last four plus centuries. The remaining three sections are devoted to: fire, both prescribed fire and wildfire, in shrublands and grassland-shrubland interfaces; water and ecophysiology shrubland ecosystems; and the ecology and population biology of several shrub species.

Titles contained within Proceedings: Shrubland dynamics -- fire and water

• Introduction
• Shrubland ecosystems: Importance, distinguishing characteristics, and dynamics
• Grassland ecosystems of the Llano Estacado
• The Southern High Plains: A history of vegetation, 1540 to present
• Prescribed fire to restore shrublands to grasslands
• Role of summer prescribed fire to manage shrub-invaded grasslands
• Management of south Texas shrublands with prescribed fire
• Hydrology, erosion, plant, and soil relationships after rangeland wildfire
• Using relative humidity to predict spotfire probability on prescribed burns
• Mesquite cover responses in rotational grazing/prescribed fire management systems: Landscape assessment using aerial images
• Modeling erosion on steep sagebrush rangeland before and after prescribed fire
• Germination responses to temperature and soil moisture in three species of the subfamily Caragana and their implications toward restoration in Loess-gully Region, China
• Saltcedar control and water salvage on the Pecos River, Texas, 1999 to 2003
• Mesquite root distribution and water use efficiency in response to long-term soil moisture manipulations
• Response of seedlings of two hypogeal brush species to CO2 enrichment
• Shrub biomass production following simulated herbivory: A test of the compensatory growth hypothesis
• Influence of shrubs on soil chemical properties in Alxa desert steppe, China
• Fungal genomes that influence basic physiological processes of black grama and fourwing saltbush in arid southwestern rangelands
• Estimating aboveground biomass of mariola (Parthenium incanum) from plant dimensions
• Shrub establishment in the presence of cheatgrass: The effect of soil microorganisms
• Differences in volatile profiles between populations of Ceratoides lanata var. subspinosa (Rydb.)
• Emergence and growth of four winterfat accessions in the presence of the exotic annual cheatgrass
• Seed germination biology of Intermountain populations of fourwing saltbush (Atriplex canescens: Chenopodiaceae)
• Efficacy of exclosures in conserving local shrub biodiversity in xeric sandy grassland, Inner Mongolia, China

Citation

Sosebee, Ronald E.; Wester, David B.; Britton, Carlton M.; McArthur, E. Durant; Kitchen, Stanley G. 2007. Proceedings: Shrubland dynamics -- fire and water. Proceedings RMRS-P-47. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 173 p.